This week’s OTT lineup features thrilling releases like Spider-Man: Brand New Day, Insidious: Out of the Further, and Mortal Kombat II, offering a mix of superhero action, horror, and epic battles. With diverse genres ranging from investigative dramas to supernatural tales, viewers are in for an exciting binge-worthy experience.
There may not be many Bollywood releases lined up this week, but boy do the international releases hit it right out of the park. Exhibit one is Spider-Man: Brand New Day finally coming to Prime Video, along with the likes of Carrie, Mortal Kombat II and Insidious: Out of the Further. Here's your handy guide to everything that's releasing on OTT platforms this week.
Park Min-jae (Choo Young-woo), a former competitive swimmer who loses a leg after an illness, finds new life when he gets into robotics and joins a graduate research programme.
Release date: October 5
Where to watch: JioHotstar
Set four years after Spider-Man: No Way Home, the hit Marvel movie has a seriously depressed Peter Parker (Tom Holland) fighting crime and living with the consequences of everyone forgetting his identity. On top of it, Peter seems to be able to make his own webbing out of his body. What's up with that? Find out on the OTT release, if you haven't already.
Release date: October 6
Where to watch: Prime Video, Apple TV+ (on rent)
The sixth Insidious film follows Gemma Hall (Amelia Eve), a young mother who returns to her childhood house and discovers an unusual connection to The Further. What's next, all hell breaks loose for her and her daughter.
Release date: October 6
Where to watch: Prime Video
Carrie White (Summer H. Howell) enters public high school after spending most of her life isolated at home. Her strained relationship with her mother Margaret White (Samantha Sloyan), combined with bullying at school and the emergence of telekinetic abilities, sets the story in motion.
Release date: October 7
Where to watch: Prime Video
Michael Sleep (Pearce Quigley) has spent seven years grieving the disappearance of his beloved. When his father introduces him to alchemy, Michael begins creating homunculi, magical spirits believed to predict the future, hoping they might provide answers about what happened.
Release date: October 7
Where to watch: Apple TV+
This Tamil sports action drama centres on Muthukaali (Soori), a former sailboat racer who returns from Chennai and finds himself drawn back into a long-standing rivalry with Saattaappuli (Suhas).
Release date: October 8
Where to watch: Netflix
The Mortal Kombat fighters return as Earthrealm faces the threat of Shao Kahn. Johnny Cage (Karl Urban) joins the battle alongside Liu Kang (Ludi Lin), Sonya Blade (Jessica McNamee) and the rest of the franchise's familiar warriors to stop a new threat.
Release date: October 8
Where to watch: Prime Video, Apple TV+ (on rent)
When his son Wade (Charlie Heaton) begins experiencing disturbing symptoms, Calvin Penney (Josh Hartnett), a fisherman in a Newfoundland, teams up with marine biologist Fonda Howander (Mackenzie Davis) to uncover what is happening beneath the sea.
Release date: October 8
Where to watch: Netflix
Set against a medical system riddled with institutional power struggles and corruption, this Korean adaptation of the hit J-drama of the same name follows Gye Soo-jung (Kim Ji-won) is a highly skilled surgeon who refuses to play along with hospital politics.
Release date: October 9
Where to watch: Netflix
An ambitious journalist (Parineeti Chopra) and her cameraman (Adil Hussain) investigate the illegal sand mining industry after stumbling upon a explosive lead.
Release date: October 9
Where to watch: Netflix
Satoko Kirigaya, a noblewoman with failing health, is determined to secure a suitable marriage before her time runs out. When assassin Shinpei Goto kidnaps her, she proposes marriage as a way out, only for the two to develop feelings for each other.
Release date: October 9
Where to watch: Crunchyroll
A Los Angeles mayoral candidate (Ben Affleck) and his wife (Kerry Washington) see their carefully controlled lives collapse when their son is kidnapped. In their race to secure his release, they are pushed towards increasingly dangerous choices that can upend their careers.
Release date: October 9
Where to watch: Netflix
Na Bo-bae is a writer who is lives an isolated life after she gains electrical powers from being struck by lightning as a child. This changes when she meets an executive whose artificial heart battery is failing, and needs her powers to stay alive.
Release date: October 9
Where to watch: Netflix
Apprentice mask maker Peru accidentally becomes possessed by the Mask of the Warrior God and kills his mentor, Gaston Roux. Haunted by what he has done, Peru sets out to destroy every mask created by his master before more people fall victim to their power.
Release date: October 10
Where to watch: Netflix